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Imagine trying to forecast a season when you can’t even, well, forecast a season. Will this major league schedule start, continue, finish? Those are mysteries that dominate 2020 more than who will win a division or an award. But for the purposes of sanity and normalcy, let us go through the exercise and appreciate that …
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The Mets got good and hammered Saturday night at Citi Field, the Yankees handing them a 9-3 loss thanks in large part to a ninth inning that looked an awful lot like the fever dreams that haunted their fans most of last year. It was exactly the kind of game we’ve seen at Citi Field …
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It took longer than most people expected, but baseball was back in New York on Saturday night. And though it was an exhibition game with no fans at Citi Field, that was fine with Pete Alonso. “This is one of the days we were wishing and waiting for during the second offseason,’’ Alonso said before …
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Before the Yankees’ first spring training 2.0 game Saturday night against the Mets at Citi Field, Aaron Boone spoke glowingly about his club’s reserves. “I really like our depth and in the first couple of weeks I think it is going to be important that you lean on that depth a little bit, keep guys …
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Knicks big man Taj Gibson and Mayor Bill de Blasio shared a stage in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday in the blazing sun, wearing masks, preaching a theme of Black Lives Matter and about stopping gun violence. Perhaps soon, Gibson, the Fort Greene native, will share a podium with another leader, Tom Thibodeau, his former coach in …
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The strange career of suspended Yankees right-hander Domingo German took another turn Saturday, with German reversing course and insisting he isn’t retiring from baseball. “Baseball is my life and I promise I am not walking away,’’ German posted on Instagram on Saturday, a day after the 27-year-old strongly hinted his career was over. On Friday, …
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Yankees manager Aaron Boone didn’t have much to offer on suspended pitcher Domingo German saying he was done with baseball on Friday. “It’s very unclear. Obviously I have seen the Instagram stuff, but I don’t have much more clarity. I know there hasn’t been much between the club and he about what exactly is going …
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Nate Solder inside the building is viewed far differently than Nate Solder outside the building. Within the Giants’ walls, Solder is respected as a towering athlete and soulful leader, a durable and reliable player whose on-field performance for some reason deteriorated badly in 2019. Fans were skeptical when the Giants in 2018 made Solder (at …
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If you could tweet a beanball, it would look like this. Former Mets reliever Jerry Blevins went at Alex Rodriguez without any restraint, leveling the former Yankees great and ESPN announcer for seemingly suggesting MLB adopt a salary cap system. “What a hypocrite @Arod,” he tweeted. “Take your steroids and make your millions THEN tell …
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Despite a report Joe Tsai is part of Alex Rodriguez’s bid to buy the Mets, the Nets and Liberty owner said he is not in the mix. “Sorry Twitter, it is not true,” Tsai tweeted Saturday of the rumor. “I grew up as a Mets fan and I have a lot of respect for Alex …
Imagine trying to forecast a season when you can’t even, well, forecast a season. Will this major league schedule start, continue, finish? Those are mysteries that dominate 2020 more than who will win a division or an award. But for the purposes of sanity and normalcy, let us go through the exercise and appreciate that …
